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Chapter 10, American Pageant, 13th ed.
DISCLAIMER
 What you are about to learn is information regarding
the first two Presidents of the United States
 All information plays into a larger political divide
between Hamiltonian Federalists & Jeffersonian
Republicans
 Keep this in mind as we start launch our new ship of
state!
The first “Dubya” – Washington
 Federalist (1789-1797)
 Had common sense, but
no brilliance
 Unanimously chosen as
1st Pres.
 Adams - VP
 Jefferson – Sec. of State
 Knox – Sec. of War
 Hamilton – Sec. of
Treasury
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The first “Dubya” – Washington
 Adopted Bill of Rights
(1791)
 Judiciary Act (1789)
 Added Supreme Court,
Federal Courts, Circuit
Courts
 John Jay – 1st Chief
Justice of Supreme
Court
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Washington’s Presidency
 French Revolution began
1789; Louis XVI
beheaded 1793
 Great Britain disgusted,
enters alliance against
French revolutionaries
 Franco-American
alliance tested
 Washington issues
Neutrality Proclamation
of 1793
 U.S. & is citizens would
be neutral
 Began U.S. isolationist
stance
 Kept U.S. out of another
“world war”
Washington’s Presidency
 Hamilton is “Father of
the National Debt”
 Debt unites people for
common cause
 Passed excise taxes
 Proposed Bank of the
United States (1791)
 To print money and
deposit the Federal
Treasury dollars
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Washington’s Presidency
 Whiskey Rebellion (PA 1794)
 Excise tax on whiskey; violent protests ensued
 Washington rallied troops from several states; put down
Whiskey Rebellion
 Another of Hamilton’s fiscal policies;
had to pay for national debt
Washington’s
Presidency
 Miami Confederacy (led
by Little Turtle)
 8 Native American tribes
around Great Lakes
region (present day
Michigan)
 Confederacy traded
w/Britain, terrorized
Americans
 Battle of Fallen Timbers
 U.S. General Wayne
defeated Miami
Confederacy
 Treaty of Greenville
signed (1795)
 Miami gave up land in
present-day Indiana &
Ohio for $20,000 &
annual payment of
$9000; could also hunt
land
Washington’s Presidency
 GB cut off trade between
US & French West
Indies; seized US ships
 America stayed neutral
though it was a divisive
issue
 Washington sends John
Jay (Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court) to
London
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Washington’s Presidency
 Jay’s Treaty w/London
 GB would pay for
damages for seized
American ships (old
seizures, not new ones)
 GB would leave US soil
(they still had outposts
in NW)
 US would pay debts to
British merchants
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Washington’s Presidency
 Pinckney Treaty (1795)
 Spain thought US &
Britain were allying
forces against France;
Spain wanted to hop in
the bandwagon
 US got uninhibited
navigation of
Mississippi River &
Florida
 Washington decides he
is done and writes his
poignant Farewell
Address
Why hello, John Adams.
 Federalist (1797-1801)
 Ran against Jefferson
(DemocraticRepublican)
 Had to deal with France
(Jay’s treaty)
 French seized American
ships
 Had to have peace with
France
Adam’s Presidency
 XYZ Affair
 Adams sent envoys to
France
 They were met by X, Y, Z
(wanted bribes before
negotiations would
begin)
 US came home empty
handed
 Adams becomes “Father
of the Navy”; fighting
was in French West
Indies (1798-1800)
 Adams sent men to talk
to Napoleon Bonaparte
 Convention of 1800
 France & US ended
alliance, made nice with
Napoleon, avoided war
Adam’s Presidency
 Alien & Sedition Laws
 Raised residence
requirements for
European immigrants to
become voting citizens
(5yrs. to 14 yrs.)
 Imprisonment or
deportation of
dangerous immigrants
during peacetime
 Jail or fines for defaming
the US, the president or
government in general
Adam’s Presidency
 Virginia & Kentucky
Resolutions
 Drafted by Jefferson &
Madison Passed by Kentucky
(1798-99) and Virginia (1798)
 National government had
exceeded the powers given to
it by the Constitution
 Encouraged states to refuse
the Alien & Sedition Acts.
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